Window-cleaner



0. C. RITZ WOLLER.

WINDOW CLEANER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. 191a.

1,863,49QQ Patented Dec. 28,1920.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Oiavnn G. Rrra Woman, a citizen of the United States re-' sidin at Chicago, in the county of (look and tate of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Window- Cleaners, of which the followlng is a specification. v

This invention relates to improvements in window cleaners and more particularly to devices of this type which are adapted for use in connection with automobile windshields, car windows and the like;

Among the objects of the Invention are to provide a cleaner of this character which may be mounted on a windshield without boring a hole therein or otherwise 'alterin the same; to provide a cleaner wh ch 1s selfsupporting when once placed in pos1t1on,and one which may be mounted over elther the upper or lower edge of the upper sectlon of a windshield of the so-called clear v1s1on type without interfering with the manipulationof said upper section when it is desired to move'the same into anyone of its various positions of angular adjustment. I

Other objects and advantages w ll be apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying draw-' ings wherein several embodiments of the invention are illustrated:

Figure 1 is a perspective 'view of the cleaner. v v Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2 -2 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken through a windshield showing the cleaner mounted thereon in elevation, and,

lFi s. a, 5 and 6 illustrate slightly modified orms of the invention.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, the cleaner comprises preferably a piece of resilient plate metal bent intermedmte it ends to provide a wiper arm 1', a handle 2 and a connecting member 3. Struck up from the wiper arm 1 to form a suitable channel are a plurality of flanges 4 and 5, sultable wiping material 6 preferably of rubber or felt being clamped securely within said channel- 'by means of a suitable block or wedge 7,

Specification of Letters Patent. )Pmtgmfggd Dqg g8 392(1 Application filed e rn 8,1918. smalno. 227,401.

edges of the rubber or felt wiping. material project slightly beyond the outer edges of the flanges 4: and 5 and the outer surface of the block 7 whereby the same may contact with the surface of the glass substantially ferred toprovide the handle with inwardly directed flanges ,2 and. 2 similar to the flanges fl and 5 of the wiper arm, so that a firmgrlp may be had when it is desired to manipulate the device. A As previously set out, the cleaner herein described isdesigned more particularly for.

application to the lower edge of the upper pivoted section 10 of a windshield of the socalled clear vision type. In Fig. 3, the application of the cleaner to a windshield of this type is illustrated, the connecting member 30f. the cleaner being designed to pass through the opening 10 between the adjacent edges of the upper and lower sections such construction as not to interfere with the mampulatlon ofthe upper pivoted sect1on."l[t 1.8 preferred to make the cleaner tion, the same being designed to be slid back and forth over the glass when it is desired to clean the same:

In Fig. 4 a slightly modified form of wiper arm is illustrated. In this form of the invention, the flanges 4 and 5, instead of being bent at substantially right angles to the wiper arm 1, as shown in the preferred form of the invention, are preferably disposed at'an angle thereto less their a ri ht angle so that when the rubber or felt wipln material 6 is clamped within the channe formed by the flanges 4 and 5, the projecting edges of said wiping material will also be disposed at an angle to the wiper arm 1 and to the glass with which they are designed to contact. In this manner, a cleaner is provided, the wiping element of which has more or less of a scraping eflect", which may be found more desirable under certain conditions than the right angle contact disclosed in the preferred formjbf the invention. For obvious reasons in this form 0t .of said windshield, said cleaner being of .sufiiciently resilient inorder that'it may be self-supporting when once placed in posithe invention, the sides of the block 7 are also inclined substantially as shown.

1 In Fig. 5 a modified form of buffer provided at the end of the handle 2 is illustrated. In this form the outer end of the handle 2 is bent over as at 2 and a suitable piece of .'rubber or belt 11 is clamped between said strip 12 by means of rivets bent-over portion 2 and a suitable retaining or other suitable fasteners 13; Y i i As is well known in-a large number 7 of the so-called clear vision Windshields now.

in use the upper pivoted section 10 overlaps the lower sectionwhen said sections are in their vertical -position(s, substantially; as shown in Fig. 6. In this figure, therefore, is

shown a slightly modified formof cleaner which may be used in connection with windshields of this type, the part ofthe cleaner which is disposed adjacent the inner face of the windshield being provided with a plurality of offset portions- 14 and 15, the ofiset portion 15 serving, as will be noted,

as the handle. The portion 14 'is designed to lie flat against the inner surface (if the upper section of the shield as shown, so as to permit the upper and ower sections being moved into overlapping contact, the opposite surfaces of said portion 14 being pro flanges 2 and 2 are omitted.. It 1s, of course, obvious that these fiangesmay be provided'or omitted, as desired, in anyot the forms illustrated. a

While the cleaner herein illustrated and described has been designed particularly for application to the lower edge of the upper section of a clear vision windshield,

placed in position over the upper edge 0 the windshieldpif desired,.in which position the wiper arm would project downwardly over the glass rather than upwardly thereover.

The manner of positionlngand operating the cleaner, however, v1s the Same 1n either case. a

Furthermore, apparent that the structure herein illustrated and described is susceptible to, many changes and modifications, it is not intended to restrict the invention to the particular construction or combm'atlon of parts herein set forth except vcihere l mltations appear in the appended, fca1m."'-

Havingthu's desc ribed my inventiomwhat I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentof the United States is A windshield cleaner comprising a single piece of resilient metal'bent intermediate lts a plural1ty of flanges struck up. from said wlper arm to form a channel, a block fitting within s'aid channel, a iece' of wiping material clamped between said block and the walls of said channel, the edges of said material, projecting beyond the edges of said flanges and adapted to bear against the surface'tobe cleaned, aplurality of flanges struck up from said handle and directed toward said wiper-arm to provide gripping means on said; handle for manipulating cleaner, a'nd'av spacing element carried by said handle between said flanges desi ned when said cleaner is in operative posltion to retain said handle out of frictional engagement-with thesurface over which said; cleaner is manipulated.

'- In testimony whereof'l have subscribed my name,

OLIVER c. RITZ woman. 

